Fact check:
A tool that helps you verify and debunk information found in the news.
In the past decade, a tangle of fake news has fueled a boom in fact-checking projects. But the ferocity of misinformation seems to have stalled fact-checking’s long-running expansion, as the Duke Reporters’ Lab finds that teams are operating at a more trudging pace this year. Despite the slowdown, there are still more than a hundred fact-checking groups around the world working to call out falsehoods and other dangerous rumors, and they’re active in 116 countries and 70 languages. About 80 of those fact-checkers operate in countries rated as particularly dangerous for journalism by Reporters Without Borders. And even though Meta has pulled back from its partnerships, new fact-checkers continue to launch in the U.S.
Researchers from all over the world are digging into a treasure trove of structured data available to them through our Fact-Check Insights project, funded by the Google News Initiative. They’re using it for everything from benchmarking the performance of large language models to studying the dynamics of harmful online humor and how it can be countered.
To make it easier to find this data, we’ve added a new feature to MediaVault, an archived content platform developed by the Reporters’ Lab with support from the Google News Initiative. When you create a social media post in MediaVault, you can now generate public-facing links to that post that you can use in your own fact-checks. To learn more about the feature, read this guide.
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